Arabic, North Levantine Spoken > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
North Levantine Arabic; Arabic (North Levantine Spoken); Arabic; North Levantine Spoken; Arabic (Syrian); Levantine Arabic; Lebanese-Syrian Arabic; Syro-Lebanese Arabic
Spoken in:
Lebanon, Belize, Jamaica, Mali, French Guiana, Suriname, Syria, Antigua and Barbuda, Israel, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Argentina, Cyprus, Dominican Republic
Number of speakers:
8,800,000 in Syria (1991). 6,000,000 in Lebanese-Central Syrian, 1,000,000 in North Syrian. Population total all countries: 14,426,540
(Ethnologue)
Code:
apc
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Syro-Palestinian; Levantine (arsy)
Child Dialects:
North-Central Lebanese Arabic; Arabic (Lebanese); Mount Lebanon Arabic (apc-noc)
Standard Lebanese Arabic (apc-sta)
Aleppo (apc-ale)
Saida Sunni Arabic (apc-sai)
South Lebanese Arabic; South Lebanon Dialects; Arabic (Lebanese); Shii; Metuali (apc-sou)
Beqaa Arabic (apc-beq)
Iqlim-Al-Kharrub Sunni Arabic (apc-iql)
South-Central Lebanese Arabic; Arabic (Lebanese); Druze Arabic (apc-soc)
Sunni Beiruti Arabic; Arabic (Beirut); dialect of Arabic (apc-sun)
North Lebanese Arabic; North Syrian Dialects; Arabic (Lebanese) (apc-nor)
Jdaideh Arabic (apc-jda)

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